GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| ration | a food allowance for one day |
| foray | a sudden or irregular invasion or attack for war or spoils : raid |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| forensic | belonging to, used in, or suitable to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate |
| inebriate | one who is drunk |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |